Confectionery-machine.



PATENTED JULY 17, 1906.

H. SCHAPERJAHN. OONPEGTIONBRY MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1905.-

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PATENTED JULY 17, 1906.

H. SCHAPERJAHN. I OONPEOTIONBRY MACHINE.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN SCHAPERJAHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONFECTIONERY-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1906.

Application filed June 10,1905. Serial No. 264.655.

certain new and useful Improvements in Confectionery-Machines, of which the follow ing is a specification.

' My invention relates to confectionerymachines or more particularly to that class of machines which cut the candy from large sticks or masses and deliver the candy finished and ready for consumption.

These and other objects and the details of construction of my invention will be more fully described in the following specification, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a part thereof like reference characters are used to designate like parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improved Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but with the position of the parts changed. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are modifications of the cutting rolls or drums.

The uprights 5 5 have bearings for a shaft 6, which carries a fast and a loose pulley 7 and 8, respectively, and the power is furnished from any suitable source by the belt 9. The shaft 6 also carries sprocket-wheels 10 and 11, a gear-wheel 12, and a cutting wheel or drum 13, having knives 14 along its length. The uprights 5 support horizontal frames 15 and 16, the former having a bottom 17, carried by the lower flange of the channeled side pieces 18, and along this bottom 17 plays a follower 19, with a rack-bar 20 on its lower face, and a handpiece 21 on its upper side, the length of the rack-bar 20 being just long enough for the pinion 22, which meshes with it, to carry the front end 23 of thefollower to the inner end of the frame 15.

The pinion 22 is carried by a hollow shaft 24, which is journaled in brackets 25, depending from the frame 15, and on one end of the shaft 24 is one member 26 of a clutch. Within the hollow shaft 24 rotates a shaft 27, which is actutated by the movement of a sprocket-wheel 28, connected with the wheel 10 by means of the chain 29, and on this shaft 27 is the other member 30 of the clutch, which is designed to connect and lock the two shafts 24 and 27,so that theywill rotate together. The clutch is locked by the action of the lever 31 and its pin 32, which latter plays in a groove in the head 33.

In the upper part of theuprights 5 are slots'34, in which are located adjustable bearing-boxes 35, carrying a shaft 36, and on this shaft is secured the upper cutting-drum 37, whose knives 38 correspond with those of the lower drum and move in unison therewith through the gear-wheel 39, which meshes with the gear-wheel 12 and is of identical size and has the same number of teeth. The adjustment of the boxes is secured by means of the set-screws 40 and their lock-nuts 41.

The frame 16 extends in an opposite direc tion from the frame 15 and has journaled in each end rollers 42 and 43, which carry a canvas orleatherbelt 44, andmovement is given to this belt by a sprocket-wheel 45 on the shaft 46 of the roller 43 that is connected with the wheel 11 by means of the chain 46.

In Fig. 1 the cutting-drums and their knives are shown as slightly separated and prepared to out what is commonly known as rockcandy and where an indentation only is given and not an actual separation is accomplished; but in Fig. 5 I show cutting-drums with their knives adapted to make a close contact and actually out and separate the pieces of candy, such as is known to the trade as butter-cups.

In Fig. 6 I show a drum with knives and one without which leaves the candy when out with a flat under side.

Fig. 7 shows a set of drums in which is continued the three above-described methods of arranging the knives, one end of the drums being provided with knives adapted for rockcandy, the middle section having close cooperating knives, and the right-hand section being provided with an arrangement similar to Fig. 6.

The operation of the machine is as follows: A layer of rock-candy to be cut is placed on the bottom of the frame 15 and in front of the angle-bar 23, which forms the forward end of the follower and whose horizontal flange prevents the rear end of the candy from riding up when the cutting takes place. The lever 31 is pulled outward, causing the clutch member 30 to engage its companion member 26, and as the wheel 28 is always in motion the shaft 24 and the pinion 22 are put in operation and the rack-bar and the follower moved forward until the position shown in Fig. 4 is reached, and the rack-bar having passed beyond the influence of the pinion it remains stationary. The candy has during the movement of the follower been passing between the cutting-knives, and the separated pieces fall upon the endless belt 44 and is dried thereon as it travels toward the end of the frame 16, from which it drops into the desired receptacles. When the follower reaches the end of this forward movement, the movement of the lever 31 is reversed and the clutch members thrown out of contact, and the operator, by means of the handle 21, returns the follower to the position shown in Fig. 1 to receive another supply of candy. The forward movement of the follower 19 is limited by a cross-bar 47 near the inner end of the frame 15, and at the outer end this frame is also provided with the cross-piece 48, which allows the follower to be retracted far enough to allow the forward teeth of the rack-bar to still remain in engagement with the pinion. Between the gear-wheels 12 and 39 and their respective cutting-rolls is located a plate 50 to prevent the candy from working into the gear-wheels and injuring same and clogging the machine.

It is obvious that the number of knives in the cutting-rolls may vary according to the size of out candy desired, and in the various details other modified means may be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention-as set forth in the claims.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a confectionery-machine the combination with uprights, of cutting-rolls, means for adjusting the cutting-rolls, substantially horizontal frames, a follower carried by the feeding-frame, a rack-bar on the follower, a pinion meshing with the rack-bar and means connecting the piinon with the cutting-rollers for actuating same.

2. In a confectionery-machine, the combination with uprights, of cutting-rollers, a shaft carrying one of the rollers and provided with driving-pulleys, sprocket-wheels on the shaft, a feed-table, a follower on the feedtable, a rack-bar, a pinion and shaft, and means connecting the shaft with a'sprocketwheel on the driving-shaft.

3. In a confectionery-machine, the combination with uprights, of cutting-rollers having radial knives, a feed-table, a follower on the feed-table, a rack-bar on the follower, a hollow shaft journaled beneath the table and carrying a pinion and a clutch member, a

shaft adapted to play in the hollow shaft and carrying a second clutch member and a sprocket-wheel, means for shifting the second shaft to cause the clutch members to engage and means connecting the cutting-rolls with the sprocket.

4. In a confectionery-machine, the combination with uprights of cutting means, a feedtable, a follower adapted to feed the candy toward the cutting means, means limiting the feed of the follower, means for returning the follower, means connected with the cutting means for driving the feeding means, a clutch interposed between the feeding means and the driving means, a delivery-table, an endless belt, rollers carrying same and means connected with the cutting means for driving the delivery-belt.

5. In a confectionery-machine the combination with uprights of cutting-rolls, gearwheels connecting the rolls, driving means connected with the shaft of one of the rolls, sprocket-wheels on the shaft, feed means connected with one of the sprocket-wheels, delivery means connected with the other sprocket-wheel, a clutch interposed between the feed means and its sprocket and means for opening and closing the clutch.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 26th day of May, 1905.

HERMAN SCI-IAPERJAHN.

Witnesses:

H. G. HOSE, JAMES F. DUHAMEL. 

